Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing

by Jeannie Burt and Gwen White

Book Overview

Explains the causes and symptoms of lymphedema, and discusses options for preventing and treating the condition, including massage, exercise, and the use of wraps and compression garments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897932641
• ISBN13: 9780897932646
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Hunter House Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Great Stuff

My wife and I found lots of great help in this book. Detailed enough for our academic minds. Honest enough to be helpful in a difficult time. And staightforward enough to be understandable. We showed it to our therapist who liked it enough to include it in her list of resources for others with lymphedema. We highly recommend it.

Finding Help

I found this book very informative and comforting. It not only tells about lymphedema, about why it starts and what can be done about it, but the book has the stories of other women with lymphedema and shows what they are doing for their condition. It helped make me aware that I am not the only person to have had problems after I was treated for breast cancer. Since my therapy for lymphedema I have used this book to maintain my arm's shape. I think the book is a wonderful guide. It was a real relief for me to find this book.

Book aids with treatment

I found this book incredibly helpful. After two years of having my arm so swollen it would not fit into many of my clothes, I found this book. It showed what exercises to do, how to do self-massage, how to bandage, and where to get help. It is complete with pictures that illustrate each step. I think this book is essential for anyone who's had treatment for breast cancer.

Important, life-saving reading for women at risk.

Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide To Prevention And Healing describes the many options women have. It emphasizes active self-help and provides extensive information on preventing lymphedema; reducing lymphedema through professional therapy; reducing lymphedema through exercise and self-massage; selecting and using wraps and compression garments; eating right to manage lymphedema; finding emotional support; and locating resources for additional help. Jeannie Burt (a former lymphedema sufferer) and Gwen White (a practicing physical therapist specializing in the treatment of women with lymphedema) have collaborated to write an informative, "reader friendly" text, enhanced with more than fifty illustrations and encouraging stories of women who have dealt with lymphedema successfully using the methods described. Lymphedema is highly recommended reading for anyone suffering from or at risk for breast cancer.